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July 2005 |
Thinking Cool- Being Cool
Summer has arrived, and we have some cooling ideas for our four legged friends. Keep those pups cool and protected this summer - and we hope everyone gets a chance for some R & R with their pooches.
Check out the 24 new resellers throughout the US.!
Last month we introduced Mosi the Ridgeback, this month's HK Bio is on Charlie the Dalmatian.
People are talking - or more acurately typing - about the Honest Kitchen more an more. We have been informed of another Honest Kitchen Blog. Click here to add your blogging comments. |
Rewarding you!
One Hot Shop!
Needling relief
Cooling Summer Parfait
The Spotted One! |
Monthly Special
An exciting new addition to our web site
We're pleased to announce a wonderful new program on our online shopping cart! We are setting up a Customer Rewards Program, so that each time you log in to your account, the system will track your purchases and automatically issue rewards points, accordingly!
Rewards points will be issued at a rate of 1 per $1 spent. The new program will be implemented in the next couple of weeks. Check our August newsletter for detailed information!
Until then, we'd like to kick off the Customer Reward concept with a $10 discount on every order over $100, throughout our shopping cart! Simply enter coupon code jul0512 to claim your $10 discount at checkout and we'll take care of the
rest! Sorry, shipping charges do not count toward your $100 purchase.
Nominate your favorite Honest Kitchen Reseller
Do you own or work in a store that you think deserves to be featured as our Reseller of the Month? Or does your favorite neighborhood pet supply store do a wonderful job of promoting our line? Are they courteous and helpful, and
able to answer your questions? We'd love to hear about them!
Please, feel free to email us with a brief description of why your favorite store should be our Reseller of the Month. Please include photos or other info that would help our decision!
Our featured reseller gets a mention in our monthly e-newsletter, a feature editorial space on the home page of our web site and starting this month – a 20% discount on their next Honest Kitchen order!
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So Hot, they're Cool!
The Honest Kitchen reseller for July is One Hot Shop!
Hot Diggity in Osterville, MA is our featured reseller of the month for July! Hot Diggity opened shop on Cape Cod this past spring and Honest Kitchen products have been on their shelves since day one. We are delighted for
Nicole with the success of her store and also with the store's rate of sales growth for our diets! They have placed multiple orders in a short space of time, which must mean the dogs of Cape Cod are flying through our delicious dog food
diets.
Hot Diggity can be found at:
Hot Diggity
891 Main Street
Osterville, MA 02655
Tel: (508) 428-3647
Congratulations Hot Diggity – your 20% discount will be applied to your next purchase. Thanks for all your hard work!
Who else is on the reseller front? Please take a moment to check the list of new resellers that are now carrying our diets in your area.
K9 Rockstore, Palm Beach, FL (561) 585-DOG1 www.jmdogtraining.com
Munchies Natural Pet Oldsmar, FL (813) 925- 0449
Dogz Downtown Providence, RI (401) 785-DOGZ
www.dogzdowntown.com
Goldworks Kennel Chelsea, ME (207) 582-7502
Barker and Meowsky Chicago, IL (773) 880-0200
www.barkerandmeowsky.com
Brookside Barkery and Bath Kansas City, MO
816-333-2275 (BARK)
Brookside Barkery and BathIndependence, MO
(816)-478-2276
www.barkerybath.com
Hawkmoons Bark, Houston, TX (281) 851-0840
http://www.hawkmoonsbark.com/
Ruff Ruff Pet Stuff, Queen Creek, AZ (480) 458-5996
Bones & Scones Dog Bakery & Bow-tique, Carson City, NV (775) 841-4329
Professional Pet Portraits & Grooming Boulder City, NV (702) 294-3111
Markim Pet Resort, San Diego, CA (858) 481-3881
www.markimpetresort.com
Casey's Petropolis, San Diego, CA (858) 569- 6005
www.caseyspetropolis.com
Pet Stop La Jolla, CA (858) 456-6311
Healthy Pet, Thousand Oaks, CA (805) 494-3524
South Paw Bathhouse & Feed Co., San Francisco, CA (415) 882-7297
Salty's Dog Shop Portland, OR (503) 249-1432
Coos Head Food StoreNorth Bend, OR (541)756-7264
Horizon Pet Supply, Burien, WA (206) 242-PETS
Next To Nature Seattle, WA (206) 935-1134
Next To Nature Edmonds, WA (425) 778-0292
Next To Nature Tacoma, WA (253) 779-8142
We are excited to have Country Home Distribution join the Honest Kitchen team. They will be establishing new resellers in Minnesota, North Dakota, N. Wisconsin. For those HK customers in that neck of the woods, keep your eye out
for new reseller to be popping up soon.
Country Home Dist
Chicago City, MN 55013
Tel: (651) 213-0060
email: countryhomedist@frontiernet.net
Online stores:
Organic Pet Products E. Windsor, NJ www.organicpetproducts.com
ACD Services Manassas, VA www.dogtrainersearch.com
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The Yin and Yang of food for pets
In Traditional Chinese Medicine and other Eastern medicinal practices, diet is used in prevention as well as treatment of disease or ailments. The philosophies used are much different then what Westerners are familiar with. This
subject can be very deep and complicated, and further investigation of Eastern practices would be needed to get a full grasp of the subject.
In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) foods are looked on as an extension of medicinal herbs, not just the caloric intake or chemistry of food (protein, fat, etc.). Foods are considered by how they influence the body as a whole:
blood, fluid, and a body's Qi (life force). A core concept of TCM is balance, the yin/ yang. Each Food has yin/ yang qualities to consider and each food has a yin (cool, damp) and a yang ( hot, dry) constitution. A diet should be designed to help heal, not create further imbalance.
Foods are broken down into many categories; those being, direction - does the food influence qi, blood, or fluid upward, downward, inward, or outward, Flavors - sweet (help digestion), sour (astringent/ drying) , pungent
(spicy/ stimulate circulation, ie Garlic), salty (soften) and bitter- (aid digestion). Meridians what is the foods effect on specific organs spleen/ pancreas/ stomach (warming foods), Lung/ Large Intestine (moistening foods),
Kidney/ Urinary Bladder (sweet), Liver/ Gall Bladder (cooling foods), then there is temperature this has to do with the way you feel after you have eaten - cooling, warming, hot, and neutral. And in addition, we need to consider a
way to balance the seasons- spring/ summer (cleansing)- and fall/ winter (warming/ nourishing).
Here are some ideas to help cool those hot hounds this summer.
Cooling meats: Duck, pork, egg
Cooling grains: Millet, Barley, Wheat
Cooling Veggies: Celery, Broccoli, Spinach, Napa Cabbage
These may be some nice additions to your dogs Honest Kitchen meal. All three HK meals remain neutral- to warm. Verve's ingredients being slightly cooler, and Embark's ingredients being warm.
Also food served at room temperature takes less energy to digest, according to TCM it would be best to make each HK meal fresh so that it is served at room temp. Visit the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society website for a
veterinarian trained in TCM. Click here!
Ref:
"Four Paws Five Directions", by Cheryl Schwartz, DVM
"Prince Wen Hue's Cook, Chinese Dietary Therapy", Bob Flaw and Honora Wolfe
"Natural Health" by Jennifer Barrett July/ August 2005 edition pg. 70.
The Honest Kitchen's nutritional products are not intended to diagnose, cure or prevent disease. Our web site, email communications and other correspondence are for informational purposes only and do not replace the expert care and advice
provided by your veterinarian. Dietary and other healthcare changes should be made under the guidance of your vet, particularly when underlying health conditions exist.
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Cooling Summer Duck Parfait
In conjunction with our feature on Cooling Yin foods this issue, we are featuring a fresh summer recipe to beat the summer heat.
You will need:
1 cup lightly cooked boneless duck or raw duck meat & bones
¼ cup diced cucumber
¼ cup flaked almonds
½ cups fresh spinach, diced.
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp light olive oil
¼ cup diced papaya and 1 sprig fresh Parsley to garnish
Combine the first six ingredients in a bowl so they are thoroughly mixed. Spoon into a serving dish or use to top your dog's regular food. Sprinkle the papaya on top and finish with fresh Parsley.
Another cool treat:
Gizmo's Cooling Cubes:
You will need:
1 Ice cube tray
Honest Kitchen diet of your choice
fresh water
Hydrate Honest Kitchen diet of your choice, use extra water for a more crunchy treat. Fill ice tray with hydrated HK diet. Freeze.
On a hot afternoon pop one out.
For more recipes with HK foods visit our archive newsletters. Click here
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Bio: Charlie the Spotted One
We always thought Charlie "The Dalmatian" should be famous and since his start at the Honest Kitchen, this has been happening. He now has his photo on the Honest Kitchen website, he's in our latest brochure, he has
made it onto the page of a training book, and there is even a painting of him by a local artist on a utility box. And more photo opps are in the works.
Everyone has probably heard that Dalmatians have a lot of energy. Well, running top speed with ears flying high is on Charlie Dog's Top 10 list of favorite things to do (see photo for image). Though if you set up a
bowl of Honest Kitchen food on the trail, he would certainly take a moment to clean the bowl before proceding on his route. He loves swimming and could care less about how cold the water is - or whether it is ocean, lake, river, or
simpy splashing around in the muddiest puddle he can find before getting back in the car. White dog, brown mud, ugh!
Dalmatians are quite emotional dogs to say the least, they wear worry on their face, where as, Mosi (our office Ridgeback), one of Charlie's best friends hides his concerns well. Charlie is a 50lb lap dog when he feels
needy, luckily he is small for a male Dalmatian. He does love any kind of adventure, as long as his mom gets to come along too. He has seen a great deal of the country, Mexico too. He loves road trips: San Diego deserts, to Washington to
Glacier National Park.
Those familiar with Dalmatians know how sensitive their systems are. They are proned to kidney and urinary conditions, so quality protein is very important. Commercial kibble will not do for these guys. As with most white, or
pink skinned dogs, they have extremely sensitive skin, mostly related poor quality food. Honest Kitchen was to the rescue in preventing these problems from occuring. Funny enough, Honest Kitchen was Charlie's diet prior to him
and Laurette, Charlie's mom, coming to work here at the HK office.
Charlie dog loves food, so he is not finicky, well he does spit out lettuce. Due to him being an EXTREMELY active dog his diet generally is Embark in the evening, this diet was designed with dogs like Charlie in mind. For
his morning meal Charlie has Verve with some added in meats. Twice a week he gets some raw meaty bones (raw turkey neck or raw marrow bone) as a treat and to keep those 3 1/2 year old pearly white teeth, pearly white.
The only complaint we hear about "Charlie Dog" around the office is his excessivily flowing saliva glands (Drool) when we're doing taste tests for product development!
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